AI changes everything, so the need for safeguards is urgent

Foreign Dispatch

AI's impact on humanity will be profound. Photo: Getty Images

Darren Walker
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The artificial-intelligence revolution has arrived. One of us is a venture capitalist, the other a philanthropist, and we see leaders in every field placing bets, by the billions, on what comes next.

That makes this a perilous moment. Machine learning is poised to radically reshape the future of everything for good and for ill, much as the internet did a generation ago.